“ If ye love me, keep my commandments. ”
If ye love me - Do not show your love by grief at my departure merely; or by profession, but by obedience. Keep my commandments - This is the only proper evidence of love to Jesus, for mere p...
(6) If ye love me, keep my commandments. (6) He loves Christ rightly who obeys his commandment: and because obedience to Christ is accompanied with an infinite type and amount of miseries, although...
John 14:1-4 takes up the thoughts of the previous paragraph, not of the last verse. The thoughts of separation and treachery had led to perplexity, if not despair. Jesus bids them trust God and Him...
love . Greek. agapao. App-135., and see p. 1511. keep. Most of the texts read, "ye will keep".
15. If you love me. The love with which the disciples loved Christ was true and sincere, and yet there was some superstition mixed with it, as is frequently the case with ourselves; fo...
DISCOURSE: 1687 THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO OBEDIENCE John 14:15-17 . If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, tha...
If ye love me, keep my commandments. If ye love me, keep my commandments - Do not be afflicted at the thought of my being separated from you: the most solid proof ye can give of your attachment to an...
If ye love me, keep my commandments.— The term of loving God, is frequently taken from that expression of love which consists in doing such things as are esteemed grateful or beneficial to the ob...
If ye love me, keep my commandments. If ye love me, keep my commandments. Christ's commandments are neither substituted in place of God's commandments in the moral law, nor are they something...
The Comforter 1-31. The mansions in heaven. The mission of the Comforter. This great discourse, which is not easily susceptible of formal subdivision, deals with five main subjects: (1) the heaven...
If ye love me, keep my commandments. — Comp. Notes on John 14:17 ; John 13:34 ; John 15:10 . The connection here is through the condition “in My name,” which includes willing obedience to His co...
VIII. JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE. "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and strai...
the Spirit of Truth John 14:12-24 There is no adequate translation for the word Paraclete. It may be rendered “interpreter,” “comforter,” “advocate,” but no one word suffices. The Greek means...
There is no real break between the end of chapter 13 and beginning of chapter 14. Therefore continuing, while now including all the disciples, He charged them not to let their heart be troubled. He t...
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (9) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me, hath s...
THE MISSION OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH ‘If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you for ever, even the Spi...
If ye love me ,.... Not that Christ doubted of the love of his disciples to him; but he argues from it to their observance of his precepts, seeing ye do love me; as all do who are born again, who ha...
If ye love me, keep my commandments. Ver. 15. If ye love me, keep my commandments ] No better way to seal up love than by being obedient. "How canst thou love me," said she, "when thy heart is no...
If ye love me As ye profess to do, keep my commandments For that will be a surer test and more acceptable expression of your regard for me than all your trouble and concern at parting with me. Ke...
MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT CENTERED IN CHRIST PERSONALLY (vs.1-6) Had the Lord spoken the last words of chapter 13 with the object of discouraging Peter? By no means. For His next words are "Let n...
Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you anot...
Do not show your love to me in mourning, and being troubled for my going from you; but show it by your obedience to what I have commanded you. True love must not evaporate in compliment, but discover...
2). The Demands that He Makes and the Provision That He Is Making For Their Fulfilment ( John 14:12-26 ). Jesus now stresses what He is expecting from His disciples and assures them that full prov...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 14:15 . Keep My commandment. —“Ask in My name. Keep My,” etc. These go together. We can only truly pray in His name when we keep, etc. John 14:16 . ἐγὼ ἐρ...
John 14:15-17 The Christian the Temple of God I. This is the misery of sin, that it brings what is so unholy, so close, into the Presence of the All-Holy. Sin begins in thought, yet thought is of...
This is a chapter which I suppose most of us know by heart, full of comfort, a very river of delight. Remember that our Lord spoke this to his own beloved ones to the inner circle. It was not addres...
John 14:1 . Let not your heart be troubled. Our Saviour having denounced Judas as a traitor, and plainly spoken of his own departure out of the world, left no jewish hope of a temporal kingdom; so...
EXPOSITION John 14:1 It is not necessary to follow Codex D and some of the versions, and here introduce into the text καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ. It is enough that the awful war...
If ye love Me, keep My commandments.
1 Corinthians 16:22 ; 1 John 2:3-5 ; 1 John 4:19 ; 1 John 4:20 ; 1 John 5:2 ; 1 John 5:3 ; 1 Peter 1:8 ; 2 Corinthians 5:14 ; 2 Corinthians 5:15 ; 2 Corinthians 8:8 ; 2 Corinthians 8:9 ;...
The Comfort Chapter John 14:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS How wonderful it is that our Lord Jesus Christ could give forth such words of comfort in the hour when He, Himself, was hastening on toward...
If ye love me, keep my commandments — Immediately after faith he exhorts to love and good works.